Definition of Planography

1. [n -PHIES]

Medical Definition of Planography

1. The recording of internal body images at a predetermined plane by means of the tomograph, also called body section roentgenography.
Origin: Gr. Graphein = to write
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Planography

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1.A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1872)"A method of representing the cuttings and fillings upon the plan,devised by Sir
John Macneill, has been named ' Sectio-planography." Usually the plan and ..."

2.A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1872)"A method of representing the cuttings and fillings upon the plan,devised by Sir
John Macneill, has been named ' Sectio-planography." Usually the plan and ..."